About the position
Coder is on a mission to build enterprise software that makes software developers’ lives easier and keeps them in flow. Across our portfolio, we have over 90,000 GitHub stars and support developers at leading tech firms like Discord, Square, and Mercedes-Benz. We are looking for a contractor passionate about improving developer experience to help us evolve our VS Code extension. You’ll work closely with our engineering teams to enhance the integration with our core product, focusing on feature development, extension architecture, and usability. This is a contract position and up to 40 hours/week may be needed initially. However, we expect the scope to taper down to part-time after a few months.
Responsibilities
- Contribute directly to the development of our open-source VS Code extension by writing high-quality code, shaping its architecture, and driving technical decisions that improve integration with our core product
- Write clear, developer-friendly documentation and improve the structure of our open-source VS Code extension repository to support both internal engineering teams and external users
- Work alongside Customer Success teams to support Coder’s enterprise user base
Requirements
- Currently based in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, or Poland
- 3+ years of full-stack experience writing code in a professional setting
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript - this is a front-end heavy position
- Some experience with Go and shell scripting
- An OSS presence - GitHub, GitLab, etc.
- Familiarity with different operating systems
- Understanding of networking fundamentals: IP, TCP, TLS, SSH, & HTTP
- Experience maintaining libraries or plugins, particularly those that are open-source
